troubles building python 2.5 on Windows XP x64 Windows Server 2003 sp1 Platform SDK

[bhochstetler at gmail.com]

On Apr 3, 2:04 pm, Steven Bethard <steven.beth... at gmail.com> wrote:
> bhochstet... at gmail.com wrote:
> > I am needing to build python 2.5 on Windows XP x64 Windows Server 2003
> > sp1 Platform SDK and am not finding anything documented on the process
> > to use. Has anyone had any success with this? If so has anyone
> > documented it? The documentation that resides in pcbuild/readme.txt is
> > not helpful at all.
>
> What have you tried already?  From the readme:
>
>      All you need to do is open the workspace "pcbuild.sln" in MSVC++,
>      select the Debug or Release setting (using "Solution Configuration"
>      from the "Standard" toolbar"), and build the projects.
>
> Did that not work for you?  If not, how did it fail?
>
> STeVe

There is no IDE available with the 64 bit compiler on Windows Server
2003 Platform SDK, so that is not an option.